Cover and book design by Kerry TremainProduction by Claire B.
GreensfelderCover drawing by Kirk DitzlerCover photograph by Nick Allen

Our thanks to everyone on the staffs of the Institute for Food and
Development Policy and the Center for Investigative Reporting. At the Institute,
especially Frances Moore Lappé for her editing, Joe Collins for his editorial
ideas and information from overseas, David Kinley for his information from
India, Doug Basinger, Jennifer Lovejoy and Stephen King for their copyediting
and production help, and Gretta Goldenman for her work to publicize the book.

At the Center, Dan Noyes, Becky O'Malley and Maureen O'Neill
Holcher, for their support during the long period we worked on this book.

In addition, we appreciate the editorial assistance of Nick Allen.

There were many, many others, both here and overseas, who supplied
information or helped in other ways to make this book possible. They include
Alberto Donadio, Daniel Samper and Elkin Bustamante (Colombia), Fernando
Mazariegos and Jerry La Gra (Guatemala), W. F. Almeida (Brazil), Samuel Gitonga
and Julie Kosterlitz (Kenya), Luise Custer, the Consumer Association of Penang
(Malaysia), the Farmer's Assistance Board (Philippines), and many others whose
names cannot appear here. We are especially indebted to those who supplied
information but must remain anonymous for reasons of personal and political
safety.

This project would not have been possible without the financial
support of the Fund for Investigative Journalism, Agricultural Missions of the
National Council of Churches, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and the
Tides Foundation. David Weir and Mark
Schapiro.